Around 10 a.m. on Wednesday, prospective juror Barack Obama climbed out of a black SUV in a secure parking garage underneath the Daley Center as a news helicopter hovered overhead. Accompanied by his Secret Service detail, Obama rode a private elevator reserved for judges to the 17th floor, where he was greeted by Chief Judge […]
Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Olu Stevens may have abused his power last week when he stopped a drug trial and dismissed an entire jury panel because it had too few Blacks.
Prosecutors in Louisiana are excluding potential Black jurors three times as often as jurors of another race by using peremptory challenges
